Have you ever tried to contemplate the enormity of God? It can make your head swim when you take a moment to think about just how big our God really is. Throughout the bible (particularly the Psalms) we can find instances where the majesty of God has been attempted to be described as best as could be done for us to understand. One of these places is Psalm 113 where Pastor Ellery expounded upon the necessity for praising God because of His majesty and glory; not only for the obvious reason that He is God, but also for what He has done for us. So let us take a look at this passage and catch a glimpse of the glorious, incomparable grace of our Lord.

This Psalm starts out with a call for His servants to praise Him forever. Even when we are going about our daily activities we are to continuously praise His name. In verses 4 through 6 we see that God’s glory is exalted above nations, above the heavens, and that He stoops or bends down to look at the heavens and earth. I want us to pause and think about that for a moment. There is no telescope or any other scientific instrument that can see or measure the edges of the universe that I am currently aware of. We always have to look up and out into the heavens. Yet our God is big enough that He has to bend down to look at the immensity of His creation. One would have a tendency to ponder that if God is that big, why would He bother with a seemingly insignificant planet full of apparently infinitesimal humans? And why should we praise and exalt a God who may seem disproportionately out of reach to us?

The Lord is exalted over all the nations;his splendor reaches beyond the sky.Who can compare to the Lord our God,who sits on a high throne?He bends down to lookat the sky and the earth. - Psalm 113:4-6

The psalmist answers this in verses 7 though 9 where he writes that God raises the poor from the dust, lifts the needy from the garbage pile, and gives the barren woman a family.

He raises the poor from the dirt,and lifts up the needy from the garbage pile,that he might seat him with princes,with the princes of his people.He makes the barren woman of the familya happy mother of children.Praise the Lord! - Psalm 113:7-9

The only way to get someone out of the dust or the landfill is to go in and get them. That is precisely what God did for us. Because of His great love for us, He came down to the sinful filth of this world and took on the form of sinful man, yet He was without sin. (Phil. 2:6,7; 2 Cor. 5:21) The holy comes down to the unholy. Our unholiness does not alter or contaminate the holy, rather it is His holiness that alters and cleanses us so we can be holy as he is holy (1 Peter 1:15-16, 1 Cor 1:30) .He took the payment of death for our sin and rose again so we could receive His righteous perfection. Only God does this, as no other being in all of creation forsook their exalted position in order to save the rejected and discarded. When we begin to question or doubt that God is worthy of praise and exaltation, we can always look to the cross to recall the extravagant length He went to in order to demonstrate His great love for us.

John Clark

John Clark is a husband to Julie, a father of one son living in Valrico, Florida. He has an Associate Degree of Theology from Life Christian University, and serves at Life Center of Brandon where he is a teacher and writer.

We as humans can't even begin to know just how big our God really is.But we can see & know how awesome He is when He Blesses us or sends us A miracle in our lives, Heals our bodies, saves A loved one. John you did it again, this writing has great insight into the scriptures. Keep up the good writing. God continue to Bless you. Your Aunt in AL.